The Three Spirit Stones

Chapter 171 Fighting for favor

Mrs. Cheng felt more refreshed than ever before.

Because his son spent almost every night in the room of his new concubine, or at Yuechan or Ayuan's house. As for Acai, he often visited her, but usually left before going to bed.

This seems to prove one thing.

As long as there are new people, he will naturally forget about Ah Cai slowly.

It's so good!

For this, she also rewarded Cuizhi. If it weren't for her good idea, she would still be angry now!

Thanks to Cheng Yu's hard work, one of his concubines finally became pregnant!

She is Miss Li, a relative of Mrs. Cao.

This Miss Li’s name was Li Hongzhu. Her father was a county magistrate and she was the second daughter of the legitimate wife.

When Mrs. Cheng heard that Li Hongzhu was pregnant, she was extremely happy and immediately asked people to prepare head ornaments, jewelry, wild delicacies and more than ten pieces of brocade to send over.

Several experienced maids were sent to take care of her.

A task was completed, Cheng Yu was also very happy,

She also asked the warehouse to send several sets of gold and silver jewelry, and told her to take good care of the pregnancy and be careful with everything!

Because of her son's status, the status of Aunt Li naturally rose.

That day, Aunt Li was walking in the garden with a group of servants and maids, and she ran into Ah Cai.

Ah Cai had sharp eyes and saw at a glance that the golden phoenix hairpin on her head was one of her previous collections.

Why is it on her head now?

oh! Understood!

He must have given it to her.

I rely on!

You used my jewelry as a betrothal gift to take me as your concubine, and now you are giving my jewelry away as a gift?

If this continues, will there be anything left of my collection?

You have emptied all the mountains of gold and silver!

fuck you,

She gave Cheng Yu the middle finger in her heart.

Li Hongzhu saw Ah Cai staring at her intently, and she felt a little angry. She asked, "Who is she?"

"To answer Auntie, she is Auntie Cai,"

Oh, it turned out to be her!

She had already known the name of Concubine Cai. It was said that the Marquis had married her with a ten-mile red dowry. Unfortunately, she had offended the old lady and was now a lost cause. The Marquis had not spent the night with her for a long time.

Ah Cai saw that she was pregnant and was about to move aside to let her pass first.

Li Hongzhu thought Ah Cai was timid, so she walked up to her and said condescendingly, "Auntie Cai, right?"

"Ah? Oh,"

"Don't covet things that don't belong to you, otherwise, I will make you pay for it."

After saying that, he walked over with a haughty look on his face.

Her original intention was to win the favor of the Marquis, but Ah Cai understood it as her Golden Phoenix Hairpin.

Ah Cai was stunned for a moment when she heard this, but she immediately got angry when she understood.

That's my golden hairpin. I wouldn't have bothered you if you took it. Why are you threatening me?

It's too much!

She originally wanted to take back the golden hairpin, but when she remembered that she was pregnant, she immediately gave up the idea.

Oh! Never mind.

It would be terrible if this woman had a miscarriage.

The news of Li Hongzhu's rude words to Ah Cai soon spread among the servants. In addition, Cheng Yu had indeed not stayed overnight in her room for a long time. Everyone speculated that this concubine Cai had most likely fallen out of favor.

It is human nature to flatter the powerful and look down on the weak.

Gradually, the food sent to her yard became less and less fresh, the fabrics and cloth were the worst, and the fruits and dried goods were the ones left over by other concubines before they were given to her.

This made Dongmei angry and she wanted to argue with them.

But Ah Cai asked her not to argue with them, because she didn't need to eat now anyway, so if it tasted good, she could try it, but it didn't matter if she didn't want to eat it.

This gave others the false impression that Aunt Cai was weak and could be bullied.

Finally one day I pissed her off!

The reason is this: Ah Cai now has a habit of taking a nap on the tallest old locust tree every day.

Because Xiao Cai said that the higher the place, the purer the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the more conducive it is to the absorption of spiritual power.

She planned to wait until her spiritual power recovered a little more, then run outside to see which mountain was the highest nearby.

That day, she was about to go back after training when two aunts came towards her and stopped her immediately.

"Stop~,"

Ah Cai was a little confused, and pointed at her nose and said, "You called me?"

"Are there any other people here?"

……

Inside the garden, the gardeners were pruning the flowers and plants when suddenly they heard a series of shrill cries from a woman.

"Help~"

"Ah~~"

"Help~"

Hearing the sound, everyone immediately put down their tools and ran over.

The sound came from the top of the old locust tree, which was about 150 feet high. Two aunts were clinging to the tree branches and crying desperately.

When everyone saw it, they screamed in surprise.

"Oh! It's Aunt Yang and Aunt Su."

"Oh my God! Why are they climbing so high?"

"Will you die if you fall?"

"Quick, quick, bring the rope over here,"

"Save people, save people,"

The servants were in a panic, some used ropes, some climbed trees, and finally managed to rescue the two concubines.

But they were already frightened to the point of paleness and trembling all over.

As soon as Cheng Yu came back that night, they ran to complain crying.

"My Lord, please help me."

"My Lord, I almost lost my life~"

Cheng Yu was confused, and after asking about the situation, he found out that they were thrown onto the tree by Ah Cai.

He took the two of them to Ah Cai's place, only to see her lying on the bed with her legs crossed, humming some random lyrics.

Cheng Yu was both angry and amused.

It's really hard to make this woman behave herself!

The two concubines were originally terrified of Ah Cai, but now that they had the man's support, they immediately mustered up the courage to shout at her,

"The Marquis is here, why don't you get up and salute?"

"How dare you lie there?"

Cheng Yu held back his laughter, walked closer and asked her,

"They said you threw them into the tree?"

"Is this happening?"

"Yes~"

"Who told them to call me short and fat, and say that I was born by a grandfather but not raised by a mother?"

If the old Cheng Yu heard someone dare to scold Ah Cai like this, he would eat her alive. You know, her height has always been a knot in his heart.

And the phrase "Given by a father but not raised by a mother" is even more taboo to him. He raised her, so isn't this just an insult to himself?

Even now, he still finds it very jarring.

He couldn't help but feel a little angry!

The curse is so harsh?

Throwing you two up the tree is already a courtesy.

"Someone is coming,"

"Take them both out and give them ten slaps each."

Cheng Yu pointed at the two of them.

The two concubines were feeling smug when suddenly several sturdy maids rushed over, dragged them out of the house, and slapped them in the face.

Hearing the screams outside, Ah Cai twitched her lips and said, "You are even more cruel than me."

"Who made them smell bad?"

This matter immediately spread throughout the Marquis's residence, and everyone suddenly woke up to the fact that Concubine Cai had never fallen out of favor.

Moreover, the Marquis had already said that the two concubines had bad behavior and wanted to divorce them from the Marquis's mansion. Later, it was Mrs. Cheng who pleaded for them and saved their lives, but the Marquis no longer visited them.

After this incident, the group of people who had previously withheld money from her yard and sold inferior goods as good ones immediately changed their ways.

He picked out the best ingredients and fruits, and tried his best to curry favor with Dongmei, hoping that she would say something good for him in front of Aunt Cai.

This is the reality. No wonder all the concubines in palace dramas fight desperately for favor!

But Ah Cai no longer cares about these things.

All she wanted now was to cultivate desperately, because she had felt the joy of having spiritual power.

The pleasure of being ethereal and doing whatever you want is something that mortals can never understand!